Engaging and innovative, User Generated Law offers a new perspective on the study of intellectual property law. Shifting research away from the study of statutory law, contributions from leading scholars explore why and how self-regulation of intellectual property rights in a knowledge society emerges and develops. Analyzing examples of self-regulation in the intellectual property law-based industries such as collective management of copyrights and patent rights, open source licenses, domain name law and enforcement of intellectual property rights, this book evaluates to what extent user generated law is an accurate model for explaining and understanding this process. It also considers its interaction with the framework conditions of the statutory law upon which it is built and the subsequent redefinition of legal positions for affected parties. With its original stance on understanding and construing intellectual property law, User Generated Law will appeal to students and scholars studying in this area as well as in legal governance and legal theory. Its evaluative approach also lends itself to policy makers and practitioners. Contributors include: O. Kokoulina, B. Lundqvist, M.J. Madison, T. Minssen, C.S. Petersen, T. Riis, O.-A. Rognstad, J. Schovsbo, S.F. Schwemer, H. Udsen, E. van Zimmeren

This book addresses the growing importance of trade secrets in today's society and business and the related increase in litigation, media and scholarly attention. Written by a team of international experts, it uses the new EU Trade Secrets Directive as a prism through which to discuss the complex legal issues involved. Featuring both EU and wider international perspectives, chapters examine the Directive's aim of harmonizing legislation on the protection of trade secrets across the EU, and discuss how this has been implemented by member states. Contributors also explore the effects of the new regime on contentious issues and crucial sectors such as medicine, big data and AI, as well as considering its relationship with US law in particular. Scholars and students of patent law, innovation, and EU law and governance, particularly those with an interest in the topic of information freedom, will find this book of great significance in their research. Practitioners working in trade secrets and intellectual property more broadly will also find this book's comprehensive analysis of the Directive and its practical implications invaluable. Contributors include: T. Aplin, R. Arnold, N. Bruun, R. Cooper Dreyfuss, B. Diaz Alaminos, B. Domeij, N. Lee, T. Minssen, A. Nordberg, A. Ohly, N. Rajam, T. Riis, S.K. Sandeen, J. Schovsbo, J.S. Sherkow, H. Udsen, B. van der Donk, M. van Eechoud

The Constitutional Documents ofDenmark , Norway and Sweden is published as volume six of the Europe Part of the series Constitutions of the World from the late 18th Century to the Middle of the 19th Century. This volume contains 32 of the most important constitutional documents from these three countries. The historian Thomas Riis has edited the three Danish constitutional texts from the period 1831 to 1849 included in this volume: the "Anordning angaaende Provindsial-Staenders indforelse i Danmark" (1831), the "Verfassungsentwurf fur Danemark, Schleswig und Holstein" (1848) and "Danmarks Riges Grundlov" (1849). A total of six constitutional documents were published in Norway during the relevant period, and each has been edited and annotated here by the jurist Dag Michalsen . Central to these documents are the two constitutions called "Kongeriget Norges Grundlov" from the year 1814 and the "Rigs-Act" of 1815, which have been edited along with their corresponding amendments. The Swedish section of the volume is edited by Magnus Isberg , research assistant at the Swedish parliament, and contains six constitutional texts; namely, the "Regerings-Form" of 1809, the "Riksdags-Ordning" of 1810, and both the first and second "Successions-Ordning" (1809/10) and "Tryckfrihets-Foerordning" (1810/12), as well as the corresponding amendments to all of them up to 1844.

In Rethinking American Music, Tara Browner and Thomas L. Riis curate essays that offer an eclectic survey of current music scholarship. Ranging from Tin Pan Alley to Thelonious Monk to hip hop, the contributors go beyond repertory and biography to explore four critical yet overlooked areas: the impact of performance; patronage's role in creating music and finding a place to play it; personal identity; and the ways cultural and ethnographic circumstances determine the music that emerges from the creative process. Many of the articles also look at how a piece of music becomes initially popular and then exerts a lasting influence in the larger global culture. The result is an insightful state-of-the-field examination that doubles as an engaging short course on our complex, multifaceted musical heritage. Contributors: Karen Ahlquist, Amy C. Beal, Mark Clagu,. Esther R. Crookshank, Todd Decker, Jennifer DeLapp-Birkett, Joshua S. Duchan, Mark Katz, Jeffrey Magee, Sterling E. Murray, Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., David Warren Steel, Jeffrey Taylor, and Mark Tucker

Der im Jahre 2004 in Kopenhagen entdeckte Entwurf einer Gesamtverfassung fur das Koenigreich Danemark und die Herzogtumer Schleswig und Holstein aus den ersten Monaten des Jahres 1848 wird hier in einer textkritischen Edition vorgelegt. Neben ihm werden die Verfassungen Schleswig-Holsteins, Lauenburgs und Danemarks 1848-1849 gedruckt, die als Basis fur die vergleichende Untersuchung des Entwurfes und der Verfassungen Danemarks und Schleswig-Holsteins dienen. Eine Einfuhrung in die Problematik und den historischen Hintergrund rundet die Darstellung ab.